Case 42021
- 12 January 1956
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 254 (2) , 70-73
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195601122540208
Abstract
Presentation of CaseA twelve-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of swelling of the right mandible.Progressive enlargement of the right mandible, beginning eighteen months previously, had been noted. At that time the right first and second mandibular molar teeth were extracted at another hospital. Biopsy of the mandible was said to have shown chronic osteomyelitis. An impacted right third mandibular molar tooth was removed fourteen months before admission, and two months later a bite plate was made to relieve pressure on the right mandible by the maxillary teeth. Serum calcium, phosphorus and alkaline phosphatase were normal. Because . . .Keywords
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